[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/98 page 11
    By these and various other methods of calculation it is found that the number 47,000 may be fairly taken as that of the population of Eastbourne in 1899; at all events, it is probably an under-estimate rather than an over-estimate. Sex Constitution of the Population. The sex constitution of the population of Eastbourne for 1899, calculated on the supposition that the comparative rates of increase of the sexes still continue as in 1881—1891, when the males constituted 35*55 per cent, and the females 64*45 per cent, of the total increase of population in the ten years, is shown in the following- table. The estimated numbers can, of course, only be approximate :— Year. Males, Total. Per- centage. Females, Total. Per- centage. Total. Excess of Females. 1881 (census) 1891 (census) 10,060 457 n,954 54'3 22,014 1,894 14,665 41*9 20,304 58-1 34,969 5,639 1899 (estimated) 18,937 40*3 28,063 597 47,000 9,127 It is improbable that this decrease in percentage of males compared with females has been continually going on at the same rate, but the above fairly represents the proportion of the sexes. If, however, the proportions of the sexes remain as in 1891 and have not altered as shewn in the above table, the numbers for 1899 would be 19,693 males, and 27,307 females, a difference of 7,614. In Eastbourne as in other similar health resorts there are fewer occupations and means of obtaining livelihood for men than in other places, hence the large disproportion in the numbers of the sexes. Age Constitution of Eastbourne Population. The following table gives the 1891 and 1899 population, of Eastbourne sub-divided according to age groups. The
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